Posted: February 5th, 2013 | Author: artintolife | Filed under: fashion, stuff to buy | Tags: designer collaborations, mary katrantzou, shopping, Spring 2013
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For anyone who reads this blog the minute I post it, if there are fall/winter designer items you have been lusting after, I recommend that you go immediately to thecorner.com. Right now and through 9am tomorrow, all clearance items are an additional 15% off with promo code AFTERHOURS. I swear, treasures which were ever in your reach, may now suddenly be accessible, so check it out!
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If you’re looking for something great for spring that is perhaps a little (or a lot) less of a bargain, you can preorder the Mary Katrantzou x Current/Elliot collection now at matchesfashion.com. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: May 9th, 2012 | Author: artintolife | Filed under: fashion | Tags: designers, fashion, haute couture, mary katrantzou, red carpet
Yes, I cannot pass up a good red carpet. So here’s the 2012 Met Ball hit list.
Camilla Belle in Ralph Lauren
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Posted: May 2nd, 2012 | Author: artintolife | Filed under: fashion | Tags: designers, fashion, fast fashion, h&m, mary katrantzou, spring 2012, topshop, trends
If fall’s most mystifying trend was the mullet dress, spring offers an equally mystifying take on the idea. For spring it’s all about the peplum skirt. This is one of those trends that I am skeptical I will ever be able to get on board with. I am usually one to buy into just about any and every trend. I believe firmly in the concept so eloquently played out on Leandra Medine’s blog The Man Repeller, that women dress not for men, but largely for themselves and each other, and there is an enormous amount of pleasure to be gotten from indulging in the most preposterous of trends no matter how ugly and inexplicable men might find them. When I think about fashion and getting dress, it aspires at its best to art, not to a sales pitch for my sexuality. But a girl’s got to draw the line somewhere, and the peplum may be one of the most horrid design elements I have ever seen.
The peplum skirt was certainly a presence on the spring runways…
whether at Jason Wu
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Posted: March 22nd, 2012 | Author: artintolife | Filed under: fashion | Tags: design, fabric, fashion, fast fashion, h&m, mary katrantzou, shopping, spring 2012, trends
If you can easily afford designer prices, hell, go for it. The clothes are generally exquisite. If you find a designer piece on an unbelievable sale, go for that too. But in terms of jumping onboard with spring’s fabulous designer trends, the fact is it’s really not necessary to shell out for the real thing. That is, after all, what fast fashion is about — the fact that trends are changing constantly, so the clothing may as well be disposable and be priced accordingly. Beyond that, however, H&M does an absolutely unbelievable job of reproducing the designer trends. At times, it can be hard to distinguish the H&M version from the real thing.
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Posted: March 17th, 2012 | Author: artintolife | Filed under: fashion | Tags: designers, fabric, fashion, mary katrantzou, spring 2012, trends
This spring season is a tough one for me. Oddly, I absolutely love it — I can barely contain my desire to own every article of clothing I see. Yet it challenges almost all of my preconceptions about what I do not like when it comes to all areas of style and aesthetics. Prabal Gurung put me in my place with regards to large doses of the color purple. Right up there with my aversion to purple, is my discomfort with anything rainbow (already put to the test yesterday in ….’s photograph). My only explanation is that both are part of the same aesthetic for me. It includes rainbows, clouds, unicorns, angels and the color purple. And “My Little Pony”, which for some reason the tweenage kids seem to be really into now in a tongue-in-cheek retro kind of way. That was once my world. Picture, if you will, a bedroom. The walls are light blue. The ceiling is covered in wallpaper that is light blue with clouds (a la Kramer vs. Kramer). From hooks in the ceiling, there hang various puffy and satin objects: a unicorn, a naked little angel figure, a cloud with a rainbow of ribbons hanging down from it. On the wall above the bed there is an enormous puffy rainbow, three feet long, emerging from a cloud. This is my bedroom, I’m going to guess maybe age 11 or so. The saccharine sweet of it is so intense it almost burns.
And yet, two of my favorite designers — Mary Katrantzou and Christopher Kane — have taken the rainbow motif to the extreme, Kane with his resort collection and Katrantzou with her spring collection. I still can’t quite envision myself walking down the street in one of Christopher Kane’s little rainbow dresses. It seems like it would make such a ridiculous spectacle. But I’m tempted. It just might happen.
Christopher Kane Resort 2012 collection via Style.com
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